How can I playback video DVDs in OpenBSD?
OpenBSD supports DVD media through the ISO 9660 filesystem which is also used on CD-ROMs, and, since OpenBSD 3.8, also through the newer Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem which is found on some DVDs. However, almost all DVD-Video and DVD-ROM discs use the UDF bridge format, which is a combination of the DVD MicroUDF (subset of UDF 1.02) and ISO 9660 filesystems. It is used for backward compatibility reasons. As most computers with DVD-ROM drives use software decoding, it is recommended to have at least a 350-MHz Pentium II or equivalent CPU to have good quality playback. Some popular media players, supporting DVD playback, have been ported to OpenBSD. Examples are ogle, mplayer, xine, and kaffeine. Please read the installation instructions that come with these packages, because these tools may need further setup. With these utilities, it is possible to playback the DVD by directly accessing the raw device. Of course, it is also possible to mount a DVD first using mount_cd9660(8),
